Belgium

pistolet

Meaning

a small round bread roll

Elsewhere

petit pain

Explanation

Everywhere else in French a pistolet is a handgun. In Belgium it is also what the baker sells you for Sunday breakfast.

Example

Va me chercher deux pistolets à la boulangerie pour ce midi.

Go and get me two bread rolls from the bakery for lunch.

Origin

From the Latin pistor, a miller. In medieval Belgium the word shifted to mean a baker, and pistolet, its diminutive, came to name what the baker made.

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